Russian N1 Lunar Rocket

Rare footage of the USSR's Lunar N1 Rocket, the most powerful rocket ever launched, it was 50% more powerful then the Saturn V (11,309,710 v's 7,648,000 lb thrust). All 4 blew up just after launch.

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Film & Animation

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• Lunar
• Rocket
• Russian
• N1
• launch
• Saturn
• Apollo
• Moon

[Alembic25]

The vehicle was underfunded and underdeveloped. I think the basic concept was good but there were too many unknowns to produce a satisfactory result. There were aerodynamic issues, pipework issues, attitude control problems and personality clashes behind the scenes. The first time all 30 engines ran in concert together was at the first launch attempt. That was Mishin trying to pull off the impossible. A great shame.

[eMobster]

Whoa! These jet flames resembles a giant R-7 Rocket. Too bad the 30-engine cluster didn't work accordingly to its plans. Anyway, they have my admiration for being able to assemble horizontally a Saturn-sized rocket roll it out to the lauch pad as if it was just another, big, Soyuz

[TheBehSquad]

Why the fuck are you all on youtube and not getting Jobs at fucking NASA. I came here to see a rocket explode.

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@ixorafy

More powerful on initial thrust, but that's all. The N1, even if it had worked, could only put a payload into lunar orbit HALF the weight of what the Saturn V could do.

To call the N1 more powerful than the Saturn is misleading. The Saturn V remains the biggest most powerful rocket ever built to this day. The N1 was a poor second.

[ixorafy]

The N-1 Rocket was indeed much more powerful than the Saturn V. This Soviet rocket produces more than 50 million Newtons of thrust while the american rocket only produced 30+ million Newtons. N-1 carries more fuel than the payload. It was underfunded and undertested causing it to fail all its 4 launches. If only the Soviets put more effort into perfecting this uniquely designed rocket, the moon would've been a Soviet property.

[salland12]

it maybe more powerfull at lift off

but the payload was much less than the saturn v

the saturn: 119,000 kg to LEO

the n1: 90,000 kg to LEO

and the payload to TLI

saturn 45,000 kg

n1 23,500 kg

wich again is less then the saturn

you should check you're fact sheet better

and it wasn't 50% more powerful then the Saturn more like 20%

[Treblaine]

30 engines? WHY?!?

[bfmlc]

@Ferom79 Energia took off twice. Buran (Soviet shuttle) was the second launch.

[Segasaturn95]

@Ferom79 It wasn't scrapped. It was placed in storage after the first flight because of lack of funds, and decades later the roof of the warehouse it was situated in collapsed during a bad snowstorm and crushed it.

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@earth2006

this thing had more thrust than the Saturn V on it's first stage but it's a popular misconception that it was "bigger and more powerful" than the Saturn. Even if it worked, the N1 could only get a 50,000 lb payload to the moon versus the 100,000 lb of the Saturn. In other words, it could only do half of the Saturn's lunar payload.

[earth2006]

its real simple the Saturn's worked these "monster" Russian jobs did'nt. not much more to say. thanks for posting this any way

[KLRJUNE]

@harris3693

Yes, you'll shut up of you were you. Ever heard of grammar or spell check?